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Nathan Silver

Nathan Silver is an architect, writer, and former architecture school head living in London. He is the author of Lost New York, nominated for the National Book Award.

Titles by This Author

Adhocism, Expanded And Updated Edition

The Case for Improvisation
By Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver

When this book first appeared in 1972, it was part of the spirit that would define a new architecture and design era--a new way of thinking ready to move beyond the purist doctrines and formal models of modernism. Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver’s book was a manifesto for a generation that took pleasure in doing things ad hoc, using materials at hand to solve real-world problems. The implications were subversive. Turned-off citizens of the 1970s immediately adopted the book as a DIY guide.

The Making of Beaubourg

A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
By Nathan Silver

This is the story of how France's famed cultural icon, one of the most controversial and supremely public buildings of the century, was designed and built.